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People need to stop acting like they are owed.

People need to stop acting like they are owed.

SEE what entitlements HAVE WROUGHT

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While watching the horror in New Orleans unfold I was struck by several things.

That our government DOES NOT have a handle on disasters, be it of the natural kind or man made {terrorist}
They have been slow in responding and allowed lawlessness to run amok. I am dissappointed in the response time lag.

Then watched as the poor blacks in New Orleans DEMANDED food, money, water.

No they did not ask for help. They behaved like since we are being taken care of by the government, we are entitled to help.

Give me this, give me that.

It's your job to take care of me.

This is the result of generations of people on welfare, they can no longer look out for themselves, they HAVE to be cared for by the rest of us. I for one am tired of having people, DEMAND i take care of them because they are to lazy, to stupid, strung out on drugs or spit babies out with no thought for the child's future.

These same folk DEMANDING aid instead of asking for help are nothing but a drain on society.

I watched looting, now fires in my opinion being set, just to watch things burn.

Black leaders saying if the cities white people needed things they would already be there and the reason things are taking so long is because of covert racism.

I watch the left use this tragedy as another way to launch attacks against the president, the left and black leaders should be ashamed of using this horrific event as a tool for partisan behavior.

I have never been ashamed to be an american but today I am ashamed and disgusted.
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insightful, insightful, insightful

(Hollering at Brad): Hey, I only get three of these things here! Don't ya think I should be able to save some from the days I'm NOT online?
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Reply By: Gideon MacLeishPosted: Saturday, September 03, 2005insightful, insightful, insightful(Hollering at Brad): Hey, I only get three of these things here! Don't ya think I should be able to save some from the days I'm NOT online?


wow gid, thanx...
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It is not uncommon for people who live in cities to rely solely on mass transit to get around, any Emergency Protocols for evacuation should have reflected that.


That's one reason I was appauled to find out that Amtrak, the most efficient mass people mover in the area, was allowed to abandon the area before the storm, rather than being mobilized by the feds, or whomever, to move people out.

Fact is, I'm not sure they wanted people out. Where were they going to take them? Surely, Memphis didn't want a hoard of poor, and presumabley temporary homeless people filling their streets. Likely, no other city wanted them, either. Their short-sighted answer was the Super Dome. And, it became a disgusting free-for-all, and death trap.

Now, we have a refuge situation that is likely requiring a bigger drain on the system than an appropriate evacuation would have. Just my theory. This really is so sad, and it should be a lesson for the future.
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#57 by dabe
Sunday, September 04, 2005


It is not uncommon for people who live in cities to rely solely on mass transit to get around, any Emergency Protocols for evacuation should have reflected that.


That's one reason I was appauled to find out that Amtrak, the most efficient mass people mover in the area, was allowed to abandon the area before the storm, rather than being mobilized by the feds, or whomever, to move people out.

Fact is, I'm not sure they wanted people out. Where were they going to take them? Surely, Memphis didn't want a hoard of poor, and presumabley temporary homeless people filling their streets. Likely, no other city wanted them, either. Their short-sighted answer was the Super Dome. And, it became a disgusting free-for-all, and death trap.

Now, we have a refuge situation that is likely requiring a bigger drain on the system than an appropriate evacuation would have. Just my theory. This really is so sad, and it should be a lesson for the future.


wow all good points and not one rightwing bash.. I am afraid for any future event too, katrina proved how ill equiped america is to deal with such catastrophies.